Senior Software Safety Engineer

About this role

WHO WE ARE AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com http://www.aerovect.com. Working under the close guidance and supervision of the Head of Safety, the Senior SW Safety Engineer will execute core safety lifecycle tasks across AeroVect’s software and hardware platforms: - System Safety Analysis: Perform hazard identification and risk assessments (HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA) on the autonomous software architecture and vehicle operation concepts. - Requirements Derivation: Derive, specify, and trace functional and technical safety requirements (FSRs / TSRs) for both supervised autonomy (safety driver present) and SDO unsupervised autonomy (driverless). - Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate directly with systems, software, robotics, hardware, and test teams to ensure safety requirements are integrated, testable, and verified. - Safety Case Support: Assist in building safety case artifacts and verification evidence required for airport commercial deployment. YOU WILL - Conduct software hazard and safety analyses on perception, motion planning, localization, and vehicle control modules per ISO 26262-6 and SOTIF (ISO 21448). - Execute software FMEA/FTA, freedom-from-interference (FFI) analysis, and code-level hazard evaluations. - Derive Software Safety Requirements (SSRs) and define monitoring/fail-safe mechanisms within multi-core and Linux/RTOS software environments. - Review safety-critical C++/Python code and robotics middleware with development teams to ensure software safety standards are met. - Develop Safety Performance Indicators to measure safety performance over time. YOU HAVE - 5+ years of hands-on safety engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, automotive (ISO 26262), aerospace (DO-178C/DO-254), or industrial safety (IEC 61508). - Prior background working with autonomous driving systems or mobile robotics. - Proven ability to work under the technical mentorship of a Principal Safety Engineer in a high-velocity agile engineering team. - B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline. - 5+ years of software development or SW safety experience in C++, Python, or ROS/ROS2 environments. - Deep understanding of software safety lifecycles, ASIL decomposition for software, unit/integration test strategies, and static analysis tools. - Hands-on experience analyzing autonomous vehicle software pipelines (perception, planning, fail-safe state machines).